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Are You Heading for Financial Disaster?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

10 Reasons Why You’re Broke If you always seem to have more month than cash, then it’s time to look at why. See if you can identify with any of these statements: I spend more than I earn I don’t have a household budget I use credit cards all the time to buy everyday essentials like food, gas, transport.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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emergency fund, so we started throwing what little extra we had straight. We committed to using a cash budget, and we talked daily at. When the second loan was paid off, we used everything to go towards. came up that day that made us need to tweak some of our other budget. 2 – Used a cash budget.

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How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!)

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We have been using this system ever since. I highly suggest using a separate paper calendar from your normal planner to eliminate any confusion. Also color coding will be helpful as this is a visual exercise, and you will be using all of this info in the upcoming steps. – Food: groceries, meals out, school lunches.

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